Ningen Doubutsuen

I will admit, when I first watched this, I had absolutely no idea of what in the hell was this trying to convey. My brain was too small. But then I read some info and found out what it was about.

When I watched this for a second time, something even greater had just occurred to me.

This entire 2 minute 13 second short was some of the earliest pieces of bdsm material. Certified bruh moment.

Now, with a quick google search, you can tell that bdsm is quite old, the idea is older than this short, but the fact that this piece of media explored such ... a concept at an early time only makes you think, maybe this was not a prediction to the rise in the genre, but a prediction of anime in the future with degeneracies people have as a guilty pleasure. To be fair, Kuri Yoji makes some pretty surreal stuff, whether this was intentional to play out such a theme or coincidence is something I will never know. But one thing is for sure, this brings way too many questions. Almost like a Simpsons prediction only actual a real natural prediction that makes some sense in the first place.

Anyways, the story is basically femdom and bdsm, and I say this because the males in this short do not seem to be retaliating, even though they are humans, as implied by the title. Yeah, I know, too many questions. Human Zoo merely presents this though rather than diving deeper into it, so there isn't a lot to get out of it unless you extrapolate as hard as I did to get some nonsense (though senseful) ideas that I have given.

As for audiovisuals, visuals are good, like a kid's drawing, but there isn't anything wrong with that, mostly just somewhat surreal animation with good colouring. Audio, "woof woof", well, someone predicted Makima simps early. Adds onto my idea too. No soundtrack to speak of other than that.

I enjoyed this, I honestly don't see how one could hate this really, yes, it tells literally dumb stuff, but I don't see how that would warrant it a 1/10 or some low score like that. Universally, I would imagine most won't enjoy this for reasons I am unaware of. But it is pretty damn harmless. Would recommend, well, if you want dumb stuff, otherwise stay away from it, though, you really should give this a try.

Let's call it a 6 (+1 for the bruh moment)/10.

the type of animation is not the best for the time, but suddenly it is its simplism what really attracts it is not the most complete work it is not the best that someone could see but it meets the basics for its time perhaps I am being condescending because of its antiquity , the idea is well developed, it shows a quite nice criticism that in its short time it manages to develop it will not have high votes for many reasons as I said before its animation is not the best nor its inclusive sound reuses several frames but it is not the ... worst I have seen I believe that the purpose of a work is to propose an idea, show the idea, surprise the viewer and give it an end, this is achieved in the most basic and simple criteria

As someone who’s watched some early experimental films before from this same era (albeit Western) I do understand you can’t view them in a remotely conventional way. They’re very brief usually and are ideas and lack a plot, characters, etc.

Nonetheless, this is simply a waste of time. It isn’t visually appealing and the unsubtle message appears to be about domestic squabbles or something. Male stick figures in a cage are shown getting whipped and making animal noises for the entire 2 minutes. Well, that summary was probably still overlong but even by experimental standards it sucks. My question is what was the purpose of ... showing all of this?